Why you should change your default search engine to DuckDuckGo

1. Better Web
Searching
Monday, April 25, 2016
Dave Doyle
Influitive - Advocacy Marketing Experts

2. Most people Google as their Search Engine
People use google for a lot
● Except my retired parents who
use Yahoo
● We depend on it for email
● Google Drive et al
● Search is their bread and butter
BUT it shouldn’t be your goto SE:
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3. Use DuckDuckGo.com instead
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4. Ever see Instant Answers on Google?
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5. They got that from DDG.
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6. Privacy @ DuckDuckGo
● HTTPS by default on search +
resulting links
● Doesn’t store identifying info
● No browser cookie by default
● Redirect on link so search not
visible to destination site
● Hi NSA!
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● If it’s not stored, it can’t be
subpoenaed

7. Now the best part
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8. DuckDuckGo and the !bang syntax
● If you make DuckDuckGo your
default SE, you get access to my
favourite feature
● !bang syntax provides a
shorthand to search specific
websites
● It’s faster and easier to
contextually search within
specific problem domains
● Instead of using Google to
search Wikipedia:
!w Ada Lovelace
● Search Google images directly:
!gi rufio bangarang
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9. There’s a !bang for everything
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Google Services:
!g Plain Old Google
!gm 111 Peter St
!gi Cat pics
!ggif animated cat pics
!gn WHY PRINCE?
General Services:
!w Wikipedia
!lyrics For That Song
!imdb Judi Dench
!ma Star Trek
!wookie Star Wars
Social:
!tw Twitter
!fb Facebook
!insta Instagram
!gr Goodreads
Dev:
!css flexbox
!html input
!js freeze
!gem nokogiri
!rubydoc yield
!builtwith react
!whois influitive.com
Shopping:
!amazonca That Book
!mec overpriced shorts
Gaming:
!steam too many games
!gfaq Game FAQS
Multimedia/Music:
!yt Youtube
!netflix Bad Movies
!spotify Good Music

10. You can submit your own search
via a form if you can’t find the one
you want.
Meta-!bang
There are over 7,000 !bang searches. To find them, use !bang
● !bang music
● !bang world domination
● !bang news
● !bang maker
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11. Thank You
Brought to you by
!giphy, !w, !gi
… and Spirit of the West
!spotify Home for a Rest
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